2nd CFP: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2024)

Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/lt4hala2024/ Place: co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy Date: Saturday, May 25 2024

DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2024 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2024 follows LT4HALA 2020 and 2022 that was organized in the context of LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times.

Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - handling spelling variation, - detection and correction of OCR errors, - creation and annotation of linguistic resources, - deciphering, - morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data, - adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts, - teaching ancient languages with LTs, - NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics, - NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts, - evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages, - Large Language Models for the automatic analysis of ancient texts.

LT4HALA 2024 will host: - the third edition of EvaLatin (https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/EvaLatin), an evaluation campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin, focusing on dependency parsing and emotion polarity detection; - the third edition of EvaHan (https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/EvaHan), the evaluation campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese, focusing on sentence segmentation and punctuation prediction.

SUBMISSIONS Submissions of three forms of papers will be considered: - Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers – up to four (4) pages*, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. - Position papers – up to eight (8) pages*, discussing key hot topics, challenges and open issues, as well as cross-fertilization between computational linguistics and other disciplines. *Excluding any number of additional pages for references, ethical consideration, conflict-of-interest, as well as data, and code availability statements. We encourage the authors of papers reporting experimental results to make their results reproducible and the entire process of analysis replicable, by making the data and the tools they used available. The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. The submission is anonymous. The LREC-COLING 2024 official format is requested. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers.

IMPORTANT DATES Workshop - 26 February 2024: submission due - 18 March 2024: reviews due - 22 March 2024: notifications to authors - 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due

SHARED TASKS EvaLatin - 22 December 2023: guidelines available - Evaluation Window I - Task: Dependency Parsing - 1 February 2024: test data available - 8 February 2024: system results due to organizers - Evaluation Window II - Task: Emotion Polarity Detection - 12 February 2024: test data available - 19 February 2024: system results due to organizers - 11 March 2024: reports due to organizers - 22 March 2024: short report review deadline - 5 April 2024: camera ready version of reports due to organizers

EvaHan - 22 December 2023: training data available - Evaluation Window - 12 February 2024: test data available - 19 February 2024: system results due to organizers - 11 March 2024: reports due to organizers - 22 March 2024: short report review deadline - 5 April 2024: camera ready version of reports due to organizers

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milan, Italy Rachele Sprugnoli, Università di Parma, Italy

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Adam Anderson, FactGrid Cuneiform Project, USA Yannis Assael, Google DeepMind Monica Berti, University of Leipzig, Germany Luca Brigada Villa, Università di Bergamo, Italy Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, University of Leuven, Belgium Margherita Fantoli, University of Leuven, Belgium Shai Gordin, Ariel University, Israel Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy Bin Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China Eleonora Litta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy Yudong Liu, Western Washington University Barbara McGillivray, Turing Institute, UK Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden Chiara Palladino, Furman University, USA John Pavlopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden Sophie Prévost, Laboratoire Lattice, France Thea Sommerschield, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy James Tauber, Eldarion, USA Toon Van Hal, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Tariq Yousef, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

CONTACT rachele.sprugnoli[AT]unipr.ithttp://unipr.it Please, write “LT4HALA” or “EvaLatin” in the subject of your e-mail. For more information on EvaHan, please write to libin.njnu[AT]gmail.comhttp://gmail.com writing “EvaHan” in the subject of the e-mail.

Prof. Marco C. Passarotti Computational Linguistics Index Thomisticus Treebank https://itreebank.marginalia.it/ ERC Grantee, P.I. LiLa https://lila-erc.eu/ (Grant Agreement No. 769994) CIRCSE Research Centre https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html

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